PHP in easy steps, 4th edition demonstrates every aspect of the language you’ll need to produce professional web programming results. Its examples provide clear syntax-highlighted code, which is freely downloadable, showing PHP language basics including variables, arrays, logic, looping, functions and classes.
- Install a free web server and the PHP interpreter to create an environment in which you can produce your own data-driven web pages.
- Write PHP server-side scripts; master PHP operators and control structures; process HTML form data; get cookies and session data; access Web Services APIs over HTTP... and much more!
PHP in easy steps, 4th edition is ideal for PHP newbies who want to quickly learn the fundamentals of server-side programming with PHP and create interactive web pages. Also, useful for PHP pros who want to grasp the new PHP 8 features and achieve optimum performance!
Updated for PHP 8.
Table of Contents:
- Getting started
- Storing values
- Performing operations
- Testing conditions
- Employing functions
- Manipulating strings
- Building classes
- Handling files
- Producing forms
- Preserving data
- Adding Web Services